TIFU by tearing up a hot pilot’s phone number

So this happened earlier this week, and my coworkers have been teasing me about it ever since. My night shift coworker suggested I posted it here so I could get the frustration out of my system.

So for context, I work at a hotel and we have a contract with an airline to keep their pilots here on special reservations. That afternoon was no different, it was a pretty busy day so I was in a bit of a bad mood. Then this pilot came in with his captain, and I wasn’t really in the mood to deal with them.

I give them the forms they need to sign to check in, but then the pilot pretends to drop his phone. He then looks at me and laughs, saying “wow, look at that! I can’t believe I almost dropped it!” It was so cheesy, so I just gave him a “Ya, but you didn’t tho”.

At that point, that captain asked for some waters they got as part of their special reservation, with a snack included. At this point, the pilot chimed in and claimed that he wanted one too, and I obliged. When I came out, the pilot then said to me “Dang, guess you can be nice after all”. Caught me super off guard, crazy!

The thing was, we needed a number for their accounts in order to give them these rewards, I didn’t think to collect them til after. The captain gave me his when I asked, but the pilot didn’t have his so I just let him go. But after things were done he came back down and gave me his phone number.

This is where I f****d up! I thought his phone number was so that I could pull up his account number in our system, which I did. Not thinking about it, I immediately tore it up and threw it away. Afterwards I went to go make coffee, and apparently while I was gone the pilot came looking for me like some kind of lost puppy…

It wasn’t til after I got back and the pilot was already gone that my coworker clued me in to how I messed up. Even all this time later I still feel like such an idiot! Now I can’t help but wonder if we would’ve hit it off or something and I’m crushing on the guy. I also can’t just pull up his number off our system and call him that way as that would be VERY illegal so fml. Seriously this guy was so hot this sucks so much

TL;DR: I tore up the phone number of a hot pilot’s cause I thought he just wanted his hotel rewards.